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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286016
Pages 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite 2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure 3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment 4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5 6. Advanced Network Management 7. Advanced Storage Management 8. Advanced VM and Resource Management 9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting 10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5 14. Data and Workloads Protection

vCenter Server components

vCenter Server is a service that centralizes the management of the ESXi hosts and the VM that run on the hypervisor. This vSphere core component interacts not only with ESXi hypervisors, but also integrates with other VMware products—vRealize Automation, Site Recovery Manager, and vSphere Update Manager, just to give you some examples.

vCenter Server is not limited to act as a central management tool only. The advanced features such as sign-on server (SSO), centralized authentication, vMotion, DRS, HA, and FT are all services that come into play only when vCenter Server is present in the infrastructure. With vCenter Server, you have the capability to manage resources, ESXi hosts, VM, templates, logs and stats, alarms and events, and so on. In addition, vCenter Server provides all the functionalities needed to distribute and manage the network services...

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